mentors
Participating AU mentors are experts in synergistic ecological disciplines (see below) and have significant experience training undergraduate student research. Moreover, our mentors are passionate about training undergraduate students and will participate in all aspects of the REU Site program. Students chosen to participate in the REU program are encouraged to identify mentors whose research interests parallel their own to develop an interesting research project soon after arriving in Auburn. We intend to have each REU student be mentored by two or three faculty with complementary yet different expertise. Check out the tentative REU project ideas.
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Research Interests: Biology education, STEM equity, science literacy, assessment of research experiences |
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Dr. Abby Beatty (postdoc in Cissy Ballen's lab) Research Interests: Biology education, STEM equity, science literacy, assessment of research experiences |
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Research Interests: Environmental and evolutionary genomics of marine fishes |
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Research Interests: Reproductive physiology, gene banking, sexual selection, hatchery science |
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Dr. Edna Fernandez-Figueroa (postdoc in Stephanie Roger's lab) Research Interests: Water quality management, unmanned aerial vehicles |
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Matt Gladfelter (PhD student in Alan Wilson's lab) Research Interests: Cyanobacteria-bacteria interactions, field experiments, molecular ecology |
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Dr. Peter Marting (postdoc with Michael Smith) Research Interests: Behavioral ecology, ant-plant interactions, ecosystem ecology |
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Research Interests: GIS, remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles, LiDAR |
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Research Interests: Bee ecology, colony function |
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Research Interests: Molecular ecology of marine invertebrates |
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Research Interests: Contamination remediation, aquatic environments |
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Research Interests: Evolution, conservation genetics, systematics and taxonomy |
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Research Interests: Community and population ecology, harmful algal blooms, field experiments, plankton dynamics, meta-analysis |
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Research Interests: Population ecology, quantitative genetics, evolutionary ecology, herpetology, behavior |
